An enigmatic X-ray source revealed as part of a data-mining project for high-school students shows…
Browsing: Cosmology
Cosmology is the scientific study of the origin, structure, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. It explores the largest scales of space and time, seeking to understand phenomena such as the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy. By combining observations from telescopes, satellites, and large-scale surveys with theoretical physics, cosmologists aim to unravel how the universe began, how it has changed over billions of years, and what its ultimate destiny might be. As new data from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope and surveys like DESI emerge, cosmology continues to shed light on some of the most profound questions in science.
Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far…
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using…
A team of researchers from Waseda University, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the University…
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is…
Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were…
Physicists have discovered that some of the faintest satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way…
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of…
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR)…
A team of astronomers led by George Becker at the University of California, Riverside, has…
MIT’s John Belcher discusses the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will fly directly…
About twenty-five percent of young stars in our galaxy form in clustered environments, and stars…
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe…
A pair of dwarf galaxies closely circling the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic…
At 3:33 a.m. EDT on August 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA’s…
FEFU scientists are developing a methodology to calculate the ratio of dust and gas in…